My Roller Girl ...

Just a quick pic ... this weekend was full of 'Cheer' !!! Two hours of training on Saturday morning and then from 1 - 5 she had an event at our local roller rink, golly I had 80's flashbacks, I am sure they played the same music there that I had when I was at the rink in the 80's, some things never change right ?

When we got there I was sure that someone would break something that afternoon, so many of the girls had never skated before, including Jade, not since the really little ones she had as a toddler, anyway thankfully past all the gazillion 'ouch' falls which I could really not watch for 4 hours, she pushed through the what had to be pain and got quite good in the end :-) Now obviously she wants to go again and like tomorrow but we will see.

Thankfully no one got hurt, Jade had many bruises and could hardly walk the next day she was so stiff but that was about it.

Now how perfect was this outfit ... the shorts, bow and socks are part of her cheer workout gear but the shirt I bought on clearance golly maybe a year or two ago and it was such an odd shaped shirt she never wore it and just last week I cleaned out her closet and found this one and an identical pink one ... hope you can see it clearly enough with the roller skates on and all :-) She loved it !!!



The guy that runs WAA was trying to raise money for the less fortunate school we workout at or have our practices at so he spent the entire weekend on top of a local store which had a flat roof so I don't think it was too bad and he I am sure got spoilt rotten up there :-) But our cheerleaders were asked to come out on Sunday afternoon and line the streets to flag down cars to donate money, they were so cute :-) I am sure he didn't get near the target he set for himself but he still raised quite a bit and a bit is better than nothing for sure.

I really love all this cheerleading stuff, these girls are growing into one big happy family, so heart warming to see :-)

Saturday is our first competition and apparently competitions are an all day event so we will see ... nervous for Jade but praying she does well. I will let you know how it goes but hold thumbs for our little stunter :-)

Random Pic Of Amber - Oct 12th 2011

Jades First Cheer Parade !!!

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Saturday the 1st of October was Jades first cheer parade. There was great excitement in the family to get her all dressed up in her new cheer uniform so she could go off to join some friends in the parade while her family cheered and watched from the sidelines.

The parade was pretty lame, small town parade but the girls had a ball.



She is so excited the uniform is blue, she says it is the best color for her eyes :-) and she is right of course.









Not the greatest group shot but one of them I took of the girls, not all Jades squad but all competition squad girls. Cute right ?



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The Start Of Fall ...

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Just put out a few things for Fall and Halloween, didn't put lights up this year, passing on that this time around. Wish I had bought more of those hanging things for the trees but I bought them the end of the season last year so nope ... can't just go get more :-(





Need to buy bigger ones like this so it looks like people sitting in those chairs, maybe at closeout this year :-)



My little model girl ... or should I say ... my other little model girl (hehehe) look when I zoomed in, I was just taking pics of the house and she obviously thought I was taking pics of her, look at her new favorite pose :-)

Don't my door hangers look pretty ... gosh wish I was more creative !!!





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Dressed For School.

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She came downstairs one morning before we were headed out the door and sat on the fireplace and said photo, mommy photo, she must have thought she looked cute or what :-)



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WAA Festival - Facepainting.

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Just a quick pic of how Jade got her face painted at the WAA Festival.



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Where do I get this brown baby from ???

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Amber has the most amazing olive skin, she is going to be so blessed having that skin, Jade is so fair but tans so well thank God, Dave of course is almost allergic to the sun, he has two colors, lobster red and white so am so very thankful my girls take after me a little more in this department.

Anyway, don't like posting nude pics but had to show you just how brown she was and this was after not being at the pool for quite a while so she was darker, and YES she did have factor 50 on all the time, I promise !!!

Oh don't mind the crazy hair, that's how it looks every morning before she baths.



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Ambers First Day Of Preschool.

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This was Ambers first day of preschool. She is only going to go two mornings a week, the two mornings I don't work, to give me a break which has been a joke so far, I have been so overwhelmed at work that I have used these two days to play catch up at home or to do prep for the next work day, hopefully though in time it will get better.



She was wearing a Dora outfit that she picked herself, all into Dora now which is way better than being into Spongebob with her sister :-(





Look how big she looks sitting on that table.



Almost toppling over with that huge backpack on. A Dora backpack that is.





The first day was so hard to drop her off, she is so used to the classroom environment where I work that I knew she would be fine but the other kids in the class, there was so much crying and Amber is a sympathetic crier which had me worried but she whimpered a minute or two after I left and she was fine, my kids thank God have always been so well adjusted and easy :-) Three weeks down the line we weren't allowed to walk them in anymore and we had to do the carpool drop off, now Amber had never experienced this before and it didn't go well, I eventually dropped her off and drove away in tears myself but after she knew I would come back and get her, the second day and so on went well ... again thank God for my easy going kids. Love you baby girls.

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Dave's Birthday.

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Just a few pictures we took after dinner on Daves birthday. Shame usually we go away for his birthday weekend but with Jades cheer now, there really isn't much time for us to take a break anytime :-( guess that comes with commitment to sport right. Anyways so dinner and cake was pretty much the birthday for this year.



A rare family pic :-)



The girls dressed in similar colors, just the way Jade likes it :-)



Zoomed in on both girls.





My favorite, love this one :-)



Another birthday down ... now just Jades to go this year.

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First Day Of 3rd Grade.

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I know I said she doesn't wear dresses to school but it's the first day ... some casual skirts may work but with my rough child that wants to be on the field playing soccer ever day, got to dress her better than this.



She looks so tanned in this lighting, she is but not this tanned :-)







The choice of backpack for this year ...



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Teacher Orientation Day

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Just some pics of the girls on the day before Jade started school this year, Jade wanted to dress up to go meet her new teacher. She doesn't wear dresses to school or anything else other than sneakers so it's a treat to dress up pretty for her teacher to see her look just a little different :-)

Oh my gosh she just looks so grown up here, not my little 8 year old at all.



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Her hair got really blond this Summer ... thankfully it stayed in good shape so we didn't have to cut too much off it at the end of Summer.



Gosh with all the poses, what have I turned my girls into ? They both love the camera, only problem is that sometime the smiles aren't natural at all, just all a put on to get it over and done with ... these thankfully were not too bad.







The usual indoor fireplace shot ... I really need to get more creative, sorry you guys.





Time for Amber to get in on the action !!!



She too just looks so grown up in these pics ...



What's so funny is she was watching Jade pose for all her pics and now she was doing all these movements for me to take pics of here ... I just about killed myself laughing, if you think Jade is growing up fast, it's nothing compared to Amber !!!



This is my absolute most favorite pic of Amber :-) Love, love, love it, she just looks so cute and grown up here :-)



Her hair is getting so long but today she didn't have too much curl in it so it looks even longer.



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